Have you seen most of the petitions? Between bloodthirsty gammons calling for public hangings to be brought back and people whose mates think they’re a legend calling on the government to legislate something frivolous or physically impossible, there’s a lot of rubbish there.

I believe, though I was young at the time, that the petition to not go to Iraq was the largest of it's time. I believe that the peaceful protest against going to Iraq was also the largest of it's time.

I should probably confirm those beliefs as they're the foundation of my belief that petitions and peaceful protests are useless against the forces of capital. Capital was going to make big money going to Iraq, New Labour are a party of capital, we went to Iraq.

Because democracy was always fake. Hope one day we will reach real democracy

The original criticism of the .gov petitions was that it was a distraction from meaningful social action that forced the government to change.

We should start a petition to make the government take petitions more seriously.

To be fair, a lot of the petitions that get uploaded are either dumb or just jokes. That doesn't excuse the government treating the serious ones that have huge public support as if they're also jokes, of course

There was one????!!

What was it?